Why would a clandestine foreign agent publish malware on a public code repository? Some random reddit user claims to have found a repo on github that uses a publicly known username tied to a politically embroiled tech company and now we’re supposed to believe it was used to falsify an entire electoral system?
It doesn’t even pass the sniff test bud, what credibility are we supposed to lend to these anonymous users?
Do you have any evidence that isn’t based on the assumption that democratic voters simply wouldn’t split their vote? Or the assumption that people wouldn’t just vote for president and not any other offices?
Like, IP logs or recount discrepancies? Evidence of malware on the machines? Anything other than “this looks implausible”?
difference between the nonsense Trump pushed out and this
Trump and his allies cited exactly the same kind of ‘anomalous voting trends’ as evidence of vote manipulation. Unless you have something more substantive than ‘these ballots don’t look like we expected them to’ then this is exactly the same kind of non-evidence MAGA had.
The biden administration was exceptionally unpopular. Anti-Kamala democratic voters have been very clear about why they didn’t vote for her. Rather than reckoning with their complete unpopularity, democrats would rather blame their loss on ‘woke’ politics and vote manipulation.
After 4 years of liberals laughing away MAGA conspiracies about hacked voting machines in the 2020 election, suddenly those concerns are very serious and very real?
I haven’t seen anything in the way of actual evidence something nefarious happened here, except some hefty speculation about split ticket voting and a couple vague (but entirely on-brand) comments from Trump.
It’s just funny to me that liberals are unironically repeating the same baseless accusations that chuds were for the last 4 years without much more in the way of evidence (if any at all)
Evidence of Election Hacking
The lack of self-awareness here is absolutely astounding.
For whatever it’s worth, I’m entertained by these bans and have no problem with your moderation style.
Users from the larger instances can be melodramatic - it’s nice to see them get burned for it on occasion.
I’m just trying to follow your use of the word fanboy bud, take a chill pill
if approving a ban reversal for tiktok is ‘fanboying’ trump, then approving of biden for not being an out and about nazi seems like an equally obtuse of the word ‘fanboying’
There’s a hell of a lot of obfuscation happening in your word choices
Was this communist ‘fanboying’ a neoliberal capitalist? That doesn’t sound right…
pot, kettle
IDK, I know a lot of neo-nazis who’d say ‘fuck trump’ in response to him being willing to work with Israel
Any time I see a lib complaining about being banned on .ml it’s almost always because they earned it by saying something xenophobic or reactionary
for attacking Trump
attacking him for what, I wonder
We’re being real loose with the term ‘fanboy’ now, huh
Is the reason you advocate avoiding VPN dependencies simply due to downtime if the tailscale service fails? Or is there a particular security vulnerability associated with using VPN subnets?
Watching all of this from a place of indifference, it’s absolutely fascinating watching liberals and even conservatives process this whole saga in real-time
It’s one of those increasingly common moments where the lack of ideological coherence creates chaos until a common perspective gets worked out.
Fair enough, but if you’re trying to avoid data collection then open-sourced projects are preferable
Preaching to the choir here but LibreOffice has been excellent since my MSOffice license expired. Unless you’re working in an enterprise setting with MS-specific macros or online collaboration, there’s no reason to be paying for basic document editing software in 2025.
There are also self-hosted and open-sourced collaborative editing suites available that I haven’t tried yet, but there are plenty of options
Was something supposed to happen?
A massive, comprehensive data privacy law would’ve covered the TikTok base and any software by any other threat
That’s assuming the ban is motivated by privacy reasons, but i don’t think it is. It’s far more likely that it’s because the US has no control over the platform’s algorithm, which they fear is feeding Americans media and perspectives that are antithetical to their foreign policy objectives (Blinken and Romney have both stated as much).
A US buyer would be more friendly/responsive to US regulatory influence. That’s the only reason this isn’t a privacy bill instead of a ban or forced sale.
It isn’t, unless you are looking to assign credit to Biden
I don’t much go for self-indulgent fantasies, thanks.
edit: i feel like this is like someone seeing a magic trick and immediately being convinced wizards are real.